Water-closet.



mi. 636,564. Patented Nov. 7, I899. L. m. RUSSELL.

WATER CLOSET.

(Application fllad July 18, 1899.)

(No Model) /ALYE ROD 6.1mm ca gd UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIC.

LEONA MARCUS RUSSELL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE JONES HOLLOW YVARE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-CLOS ET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 636,564, dated November 7, 1899.

Application filed July 18,1899. Serial No. 724,241. (No model.)

To all whom) it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEONA MARCUS RUs- SELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Water-Closets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to water-closets, and it relates more particularly to means whereby a Water-closet seat may be readily attached to and disconnected from the watercloset bowl and also to means whereby the bowl may be automatically flushed when the seat is lowered and such flushing continued when the seat is occupied and the flow of water automatically cut off when the seat is raised.

Among the objects in View is to provide simple and inexpensive means for attaching a water-closet seat to the bowl and for automatically flushing said bowl when the closet is in'use, these means being adapted for application to closets of usual construction; and the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed outin the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View of a water-closet constructed according to my invention, showing the seat in its normal raised position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly broken away, showing the seat in its lowered position. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the attaching means for the seat in an inverted position and showing one of the clamping-plates detached.

1 indicates an ordinary water-closet bowlture corresponding to that of the bowl. Said section is provided with openings 9, through which project bolts 10, the lower ends of which are threaded and having heads 11, which are perforated to receive the trunnions 7. Upon the lower ends of the bolts are adapted to be screwed nuts-12. I

13 indicates plates which are slotted, as at 14, and through the slots project the bolts 10. Integral with the plates 13 are downwardlyprojecting lugs 15, which are adapted to cooperate with downwardly-projecting lugs 16, integral with the plate 8 at its inner edge, which lugs 16 have inwardly-projecting portions 17. The latter are adapted to engage beneath the flange 2, while the lugs 13 are adapted to clamp against the outer face of the bowl, as represented in Figs. land 2. It will thus be seen that by first causing the portions 17 of lugs 16 to engage beneath the flange 2, then adjusting the plates 13 inwardly until the lugs 15 bear against the bowl, and then screwing the nuts 12 tightly against the under side of the plates 13 the section 8 will be firmly secured to the bowl, and the seat thus will have a pivotal connection with the bowl. Owing to the provision of the slots 14 the plates 13 are not only enabled to be readily loosened after unscrewing the nuts to adapt the attaching means to be readily discon-' nected from the bowl, but the device is adapted for use with bowls of various thicknesses.

Washers 18 may be interposed between the nutsand. the plates 13, as shown.

It will be observed that I have provided a very simple and inexpensive means whereby a water-closet seat may be readily attached to or disconnected from the bowl.

For the purpose of automatically raising the seat when not in use, any suitable means may be provided, as is usual. I show the section 4 as being provided with a rearwardlyprojecting arm 20, from which is suspended a weight 21, whichlatter will effect the raising of the seat when not in use. Instead of the weight a suitably-arranged spring might be employed for the described purpose.

The means which I employ for automatically flushing the bowl While the seat is in a lowered position will now be described.

The section 8 has an integral arm or pro jection 22,perf0rated at 23, and through which perforation loosely extends a rod 24, the lower end of which is in suitable connection with a valve, as at 25, located at a suitable point in a water-supply pipe or in a branch thereof, which pipe or its branch leads into the bowl adjacent to its upper edge for the purpose of flushing the same, as is usual. The perforation in the arm serves as a guide for the rod 24 in its reciprocating movements.

It will be noted that I do not wish to be restricted to the exact location or arrangement of the valve which controls the supply of water to the bowl or to the arrangement of the supply-pipe. For instance, each closet in a dwelling may have an independent supply-pipe leading at its upperend into the bowl and provided adjacent thereto with the valve referred to and then leading down below the frost-line and connected with the main supply-pipe for the dwelling, or there may be but one supply-pipe leadingfrom the main water-pipe and said supply-pipe be provided with a branch leading to each bowl forflushing it, a valve being then located in each branch pipe.

The connection between the lower end of the rod 24: and the valve should be such that when the rod is depressed the valve will be opened to permit the water to flush the bowl and that when the rod is raised said valve will be closed to out oi? the supply of water.

The section 4 has an arm or extension 28, which when the seat is lowered for use will strike against the upper end of the rod, as seen in Fig. 2, and depress said rod, thus opening the valve and causing the bowl to be flushed.

For the purpose of closing the valve when the seat has been raised any suitable means may be employed-as, for instance, a coiled spring 29, encircling the rod 24, and being seated in a depression formed in the arm 22, said spring operating to raise the rod when the seat is raised, and thus close the valve.

hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A means for attaching a water-closet seat to the bowl, comprising a plate or section having lugs atits inner edge, plates provided with slots and having lugs, the various lugs being adapted to engage the bowl upon its inner and outer sides adjacent to the rim,

bolts threaded at one end and provided at the opposite end with apertured heads, said bolts passing through the plate or section and the slots in the slotted plates, and nuts adapted to screw upon the threaded ends of the bolts, as and for the purposes specified.

2. In a water-closet, the combination with a bowl, and a seat, of a plate or section provided at one edge with lugs engaging the bowl upon its inner side adjacent to the rim, plates carried by the aforesaid plate and having lugs engaging the outer side of the bowl adjacent to the rim and having slots, bolts threaded at one end and having apertured heads at the opposite end and passing through the first-mentioned plates and the said slots, nuts threaded upon the threaded ends of the bolts, a plate secured upon the under side of the seatand havingjournals pivotally mounted in the apertures of the bolts, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a water-closet, the combination with a bowl, a water-supply pipe therefor, a valve in said pipe, and a rod in connection with said valve, of a plate carried by the bowl having a cup-shaped or recessed projection through which said rod loosely passes and by which it is guided, means carried by the seat adapted to actuate the rod in one direction when the seat is lowered, and a spring seated in the cup-shaped projection and adapted to move the rod in the opposite direction when the seat is raised, all for the purposes specified.

4. In a water-closet, the combinationwith a bowl, a water-supply pipe therefor, avalve in said pipe, and a rod in connection with said valve, of a plate carried by the bowl and having a lateral projection through which the said rod loosely passes and by which it is guided, the upper end of the rod normally extending above the said projection, a seat pivotally connected with said plate, and a laterally-projecting arm carried by the seat adapted to strike the projecting end of the rod when the seat is lowered to cause the said rod to open the valve, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LEONA MARCUS RUSSELL. Witnesses:

Lotus 13. MCll/IULLEN, EARLE O. PERRY. 

